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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1880

31 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 2

Accident to a Braidwood Carrier

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 3 July 1880 · page 5

ACCIDENT TO A BRAIDWOOD CARRIER.—We learn that on Monday John Webb, carrier of Braidwood, met with a severe accident at the railway-station in Goulburn. He had his waggon heavily laden with…

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Accidentally Shot

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 22 July 1880 · page 3

AN inquest was held on Tuesday, at Boxer’s Creek, before the district coroner (T. Marsden Esq ) on the body of a boy named Charles Thomas Collins, 13 years of age. The…

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Fatal Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 29 September 1880 · page 4

Adelaide, Thursday.— Mrs. Henry Johns, a widow lady aged seventy-four, a colonist since 1838, and the mother of the Hon. Joseph Fisher, was run over by the Semaphore train…

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Dreadful Railway Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 29 September 1880 · page 4

A TERRIBLE accident befell the express train from Leeds to Morecambe on the afternoon of August 11. The train is timed to leave Leeds at 12. 15, and to reach Morecambe at…

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Fearful Railway Accident

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 September 1880 · page 2

WE have to tecord the most terribly sensational railway causality, and that of most serious cost in life and limb, which has occurred in New Zealand since our railway system was…

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Fatal Accident

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 8 November 1880 · page 2

AN inquest was held before Mr. A. M. Betts, coroner, on Saturday last at the Commercial Hotel, Bungonia on the body of William George Armstrong, aged eleven, who was killed by a fall from his horse at…

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Fatal Accident at Bungonia

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 November 1880 · page 4

ON Saturday afternoon last the coroner for the district (Mr. A. M. Betts) held an inquest at the Commercial Hotel, Bungonia, on the body of a lad about eleven years of age named William George…

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Case of Drowning

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Monday 29 November 1880 · page 2

On Sunday a middle-aged man named McLaughlin in the employ of Mr. Faithfull of Springfield was drowned while bathing in a waterhole. He swam across from one side to…

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Accidents

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 December 1880 · page 2

On Thursday last John Dredge while driving to Binda from Crookwell fell out of his buggy, breaking one of his shoulder-bones. Ha was brought to Goulburn and had his injuries attended to by…

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Fatal Accident Near Nattai

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 29 December 1880 · page 4

Mr. Percy Fhut, a young gentleman who was bookkeeper for Mr. Boyd, the well-known photographer, Sydney, was accidentally shot dead at Nattai early on Monday…

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Sad Case of Drowning

Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 December 1880 · page 2

IT is our painful duty to place on record the death by drowning of John Samuel Salmon, aged 15 years (and a son of our respected townsman the Town Clerk), on…

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